This is the greatest video I’ve ever seen. No notes. The lifeless clanker carcass just laying there. No crowd reaction, anything. Just Billie Jean. Until its lifeless shell is shamefully dragged off. Purely amazing.
@celestialbe1ng Idk lactase non-persistence is a real thing. Ironically for the ray Peat viewpoint, what makes milk digestible for people who aren't lactase persistent is a trained microbiome, particularly in the large intestine.
My 3 yo put a dried apricot in my water bottle and I didn’t notice, took a sip in the middle of the night and it tasted so weird, shined my flashlight in there, the apricot had rehydrated and was like a perfectly round glowing testicle in the bottom of my water bottle. Horrific
Some thoughts on the Clarity Act ahead of today’s markup.
The PATRIOT Act provisions continue to remain in place in the text that will be debated today – including the creation of special measures that could drastically restrict privacy services in the US.
The BRCA is good on paper to solidify FinCEN guidance into law – but it explicitly exempts developers from protection under the very statute both Roman Storm and the Samourai Wallet developers have been convicted of:
A statute which too stems from the PATRIOT Act, originally designed to target non-traditional banking networks such as Hawala.
While now tied to “specific intent” (good), this exemption effectively continues to criminalize the known “transmission” of illicit proceeds, whereas the interpretation of “specific intent” would be up to the courts and law enforcement (bad).
There’s also been a lot of fuss over the 40 amendments Sen Warren has filed, the most interesting one being the expansion of the BSA to cover digital assets, which would bring full KYC/AML to non-custodial software.
Warren is not the only one that submitted such an amendment, and it also doesn’t come from nowhere:
Last year, the White House tasked Congress to consider passing exactly such an expansion in its Digital Assets Report.
I’m aware that everyone is excited for this bill to pass, but I genuinely have trouble understanding why.
You get what you ask for I guess.
@SolBrah@80MR0X2 The microbiome is much more resilient than you think. The appendix repopulates the gut with the right bacteria when it has been depleted.
The next administration needs to pass a law that expands and protects every square inch of the National Park System and kneecaps future administrations from being able to sell any of it off.
This is a 90-10 issue.